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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1937

363 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 19 of 19

Seamen's Peril Hauled on Burwah in Heavy Sea Lifeboat Lost Saros's Crew Paid Off in Sydney SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 December 1937 · page 8

Three of the men who were last to leave the stricken freighter Saros when she foundered almost under the lighthouse at Cape…

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Launch Capsized Fishermen Swam Ashore Shark-infested Waters Grafton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 December 1937 · page 7

After waiting outside the Clarence bar for four and a half hours this afternoon in a 20-foot motor-launch until the sea moderated, Gordon Wingfield, a Grafton…

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Killed in Amazing Explosion on Beach Stray Bullet Ignited Magazine One Body Flung Into Surf: Houses Wrecked Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 30 December 1937 · page 1

A young man and a young woman were killed instantly, the woman's body being blown into the sea 100 yards away at Kilcunda, near Wonthaggi, to-day, when a rifle bullet accidentally struck an explosives…

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Sale of Saros Wreck Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 December 1937 · page 5

Acting as agents for Lloyd's, the Orient Line will call tenders to-morrow for the sale of the Saros, the interstate freighter which ran aground off Cape Everard last…

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